Sunstone Circuits, a printed circuit board (PCB) prototype provider, has enhanced their services by offering SMT stencils when placing an order within their Quickturn, Full Feature, and CAD Tool, ...

When your project is ready to build, it’s time to find a PCB manufacturer. There are tons of them out there, but for prototype purposes cheaper is usually better. [Ian] at Dangerous Prototypes has ...

Back in 2010, Bob Pease sent me a couple pictures of some prototype printed circuit boards (PCBs) he had made in the early 1960s. Pease got to be a great analog engineer because he would hack away at ...

Getting PCBs made is often the key step in taking a dodgy lab experiment and turning it into a functional piece of equipment. However, it can be tedious to wait for PCBs to ship, and that can really ...

There is no one best fab house. It depends what you need and the kind of boards you are making. For a one-off hobby or test project, maybe OSH Park is best. For high-tech boards, Sierra Proto Express ...

Price – if software is not affordable or justifiable, the product is immediately eliminated. However, there are very sophisticated and full-featured products offered at no cost by some vendors. Ease ...

Inspired by the wise words of commenters on this blog and a friend making an electronic thing, I thought I would share my experience of boxing projects to make reliable (claimeth I) useful (debateth ...

If you spend your time creating prototype PCB boards all small production runs you may be interested in a new open source manual PCB pick-and-place machine specifically created for “PCB artisans” say ...